Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be, and his style is a little heavy in spots, but the necessary power and brilliance are there. The best of this new album of his is, of course, the "Tristan" excerpt. It's that wonderful scene where Tristan, knowing he is going to die, invites Isolde to follow him into "dasdunkel nacht'ge Land, daraus die Mutter einst mich sandt," and Melchior renders it with the perfect shade of dusky "Weltschmerz...
When the rodents increase, foxes increase. So do hawks, snowy owls, martens and even caribou (because the wolves eat the rodents, which are easier to catch than caribou). When the rodents disappear, the foxes die off, and the snowy owls-"a mass of transfigured lemming" -emigrate to the U.S. Wolves attack the caribou herds again, and survival becomes harder for the caribou-hunting Indians...
...wins a horse race for him, he can't resist. In mid-honeymoon in New Orleans, America learns the truth about him: Fant is a gambler and a dastard. For a while she supports him by selling off her trousseau to pleasure women (Fant is fit to die laughing). But Fant kills a fellow gambler, then dives off a sternwheeler. America returns to a Kentucky tobacco farm, gets to work supporting herself, surrounded by some of the richest Scottish, Irish, German and end-man brogues to be found outside vaudeville...
Except for a brief Christmas cable the last news received was a letter of November 1, in which Derby said "The die is cast--there is now nothing left for us but a job to be done . . . so important that it transcends . . . if necessary even life itself...
...famed predecessor, Ward McAllister, who invented "The 400." Paul coined the phrase "Café Society" and made a fat living insulting it. But he differed from other society reporters in being able to keep alive the vivid fiction that a world of "real" socialites existed. The fiction will die with...